Where's Vietnam ?
Writer: Alice Nutter
Director: Rod Dixon
Music: Harry Hamer
Design: Ali Allen
Choreography: Sharon M Watson
Lighting: Tim Skelly
Performed by a cast of Red Ladder artists and actors from the Leeds community, Where’s Vietnam? was the 40th anniversary production of Red Ladder Theatre Company and performed to sell out audiences at the West Yorkshire Playhouse. With a soundtrack of sixties soul and dirty funk, a black comedy about love, loyalty and not letting disability stand in the way of extreme violence.
Hungry for revenge, two brothers, Banks and Arthur set off on a road trip that takes them down the M1 and into a world they don't understand. 1968, and the sexual revolution is stuck in a traffic jam just outside Leeds but Banks and Arthur are about to see beyond the city's narrow perimeters.
A fan of the Kray twins, Banks proudly models himself on Reggie Kray and pushes his gentle giant of a brother into the subservient role of Ronnie. As they hitch across country they encounter a shifting cast of characters, who offer them everything from fish paste sandwiches to balloon based sex. A new world unfolds before them, a world where the young demonstrate and get laid; the last thing Banks wants to do is give peace a chance.